The Rise and Fall of Scandinavian Thraldom
The beginning of slavery in Scandinavia is impossible to fathom. We have to settle with some hypotheses, one being that it was introduced after contacts with the Roman world, another that we had some kind of slavery already in the Bronze (perhaps even the Stone) Age, although it is difficult to comprehend how such kind of dependency could function in a hunter-gatherer society. As for the end of slavery, we are somewhat better equipped with sources. Thraldom seems to successively fade out in Scandinavian society in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and for Sweden the year 1335 has been considered a final date. Unfree thralls where turned into (half-free) rent-paying tenants.
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